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WILLIAM ARTHUR HAWARD, who accidentally met his death on Monday, December 6, whilst making some final experiments in an important investigation upon gaseous combustion under high initial pressures, upon which he had been engaged during the past two years as a Salters' research fellow in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, was passionately devoted to the cause of scientific research. There is every reason to believe that, had his career not been thus so tragically cut short, he would at no distant date have achieved great distinction as a scientific discoverer. Even during the research which he was completing at the time of his death he had, by most skilful experimental work, discovered a series of facts which pointed to an important new fundamental development in the science of combustion. Indeed, the actual experiment upon which he was engaged when the accident occurred was intended tp test a new theory which had been suggested to account for some of his remarkable experimental results. In due course, when the results of his research are published, the importance of them to science will at once be apparent. He undoubtedly laid down his life in the cause of science.
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William Arthur Haward. Nature 106, 510–511 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106510a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106510a0